What is PHP and What are its Applications?

[Youstable]

Coding is not everyone cups of coffee, and the millennial doesn’t seem to understand the true potential of the PHP applications.

[Freya009]

PHP is a server-side scripting language. that is used to develop Static websites or Dynamic websites or Web applications. PHP stands for Hypertext Pre-processor, which earlier stood for Personal Home Pages.

PHP scripts can only be interpreted on a server that has PHP installed.

The client computers accessing the PHP scripts require a web browser only.

A PHP file contains PHP tags and ends with the extension ".php".

It's application:

Dynamic websites (e.g. Apps4Rent, O365CloudExperts)
Web-based systems
Desktop systems
PHP scripts with a command line, etc.

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[Hanfonal]

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[RuskinF]

PHP is a recurring-type acronym. It stands for PHP's Hypertext Preprocessor. It is used to design static or Dynamic webpages. It can also be used to design web-based simple games. It can only be understood by servers that have PHP installed on them.
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[amrutaak]

PHP (Hypertext Pre-processor) is a scripting language design for developing dynamic web pages. While its principal purpose was server-side scripting, it has grown to incorporate a command line interface capability and can be used to develop client-side Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications as well.
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These are the application of PHP given below:-

Web Pages and Web-Based Applications
Web Content Management Systems
eCommerce Applications
GUI-Based Applications
Create Flash
Image Processing and Graphic Design
Data Representation

[DianaDickson]

PHP is a very popular open source programming language and is widely used to build internet based websites and systems. Originally, the acronym PHP meant Personal Home Page, but it was changed to be a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, which could be translated literally as a hypertext preprocessor. As its name suggests, the PHP script is rendered on the server, and only static content (such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, and others) is sent to the user’s browser.

Uses of php:

We can create static or dynamic websites using php.
Php is server side run time interpreted language and it is easy to learn.
It is an open source and free to use.
It supports all database structures like Oracle, SQL, MySQL etc.
Some of the frameworks like word press, la-ravel, woo commerce etc. built up with php.
It can be supports cross platform system so we can built php application in any operating system.

[mikeduke790]

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994; the PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group.

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[avajohn]

If you want to learn about PHP, you must be knowing about programming and different programming languages, PHP is one of them, PHP is a scripting language it's mostly used in web application, web development and different programming stages.

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[arslanali5050]

PHP is a scripting language designed for developing dynamic web pages. While its principal purpose was server-side scripting, it has grown to incorporate a command-line interface capability and can be used to develop client-side Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications as well.
Applications of Php:
  1) Web Pages and Web-Based Applications
  2) Web Content Management Systems
  3) eCommerce Applications
  4) GUI-Based Applications
  5) Image Processing and Graphic Design
  6) Data Representation

[Wilsonjacob45]

Coding is not everyone cups of coffee, and the millennial doesn’t seem to understand the true potential of the PHP applications.

Hello,

PHP is an Open source programming language. PHP stands for Hypertext Pre-processor, which earlier used for Personal Home Pages. Now it is used to develop static websites as well as dynamic websites and web-based applications. PHP is mainly used for server-side scripting programming, so you can do anything any other CGI program can do, such as collect form data, generate dynamic page content, or send and receive cookies.

Applications of PHP:

• Web Pages and Web-Based Applications
• Desktop Applications
• Web Content Management Systems
• eCommerce Applications
• Dynamic websites
• GUI-Based Applications
• Create Flash
• Image Processing and Graphic Design
• Data Representation

[printablething]

PHP is a general-purpose server side scripting language especially suited to web applications.
A lots of CMS already run on PHP - Wordpress, Magento, Drupal.
I already run a website - PrintableThing.com

[EvaSmith]

PHP stands for Hypertext Pre-processor, which earlier used to build Personal Home Pages. Basically, PHP is a server-side scripting language. Using this programming language, we can develop Static websites or Dynamic websites and Web applications.

There are a lot of applications we can develop through PHP:

• eCommerce Applications
• Dynamic websites
• GUI-Based Applications
• Web Pages and Web-Based Applications
• Desktop Applications
• Web Content Management Systems

[markwilson]

PHP is a scripting language designed for developing dynamic web pages. While its principal purpose was server-side scripting, it has grown to incorporate a command line interface capability and can be used to develop client-side Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications as well.

PHP Syntax

A PHP file can also contain tags such as HTML and client side scripts such as JavaScript.

HTML is an added advantage when learning PHP Language. You can even learn PHP without knowing HTML but it’s recommended you at least know the basics of HTML.

Different Applications of PHP
Web Pages and Web-Based Applications:
Any web page or web application developed in the current ecosystem needs to offer a high degree of customization, provide highly interactive user interface, be capable of performing online transactions and integrate with database systems. Through its three-tiered architecture which works on browser, server and database system in a linear manner, PHP offers a reliable solution to achieve these features. As a consequence, PHP is used by over 82% of websites for server side programming; over 244 million websites are built using PHP. Further, web-based enterprise applications and a multitude of Facebook apps are also scripted in PHP.

Web Content Management Systems:
PHP offers support to numerous databases including MySQL, Oracle and MS Access and is capable of interacting with other services using protocols such as IMAP, LDAP, POP3, NNTP, SNMP, HTTP and COM . As a result, PHP has been used for creating popular web Content Management Systems (CMS), including WordPress and its plugins, user-facing portion of Facebook, Joomla, Drupal, Moodle, Silverstripe, MediaWiki, Digg and others.

eCommerce Applications:
From small businesses to large enterprises, selling to online shoppers is now an indispensable requirement. Through use of frameworks like CodeIgniter and CakePHP, PHP allows creation of eCommerce applications in a swift and simple manner. Many of the highly used eCommerce platforms, such as OpenCart, Magento, PrestaShop, Zen Cart, AgoraCart and Ubercart, have all been created on PHP.


Database management systems DBMS for database powered applications.
For more advanced topics such as interactive applications and web services, you will need JavaScript and XML.


I hope this information will be helpful!
Mark Wilson

[Pravin]

PHP is an acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
PHP is a widely-used, open-source scripting language
PHP scripts are executed on the server
PHP is free to download and use
PHP is an amazing and popular language!

It is powerful enough to be at the core of the biggest blogging system on the web (WordPress)!
It is deep enough to run the largest social network (Facebook)!
It is also easy enough to be a beginner's first server-side language!
Here's the list of the websites that use PHP as their core technology.

Facebook
Yahoo (self-made PHP version)
Wordpress (wordpress itself powers 26% of the Internet)
Flickr
Tumblr
Amazon
Flipkart
Wikipedia
Apple
Istockphoto
Other CMSs like Joomla, Drupal MODX also use PHP.
And the list goes on.